Monday, January 17, 2022

Dean Powery on Dr. King's Vision for a 'World House'


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Chapel Dean Luke Powery highlights Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision for a "world house" in a (Duke) Chronicle column today on the King holiday. "It was a term King used to mean 'beloved community' or 'human family' or 'new world order,'” Dean Powery explains.

"Key for King was the recognition that all people are created in the image of God and are interdependent," he says. "As he put it in his final chapter [of Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community?] on the world house, 'We are inevitably our brother’s keeper because we are our brother’s brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.'”

"The purpose of King’s life--his 'why' for living--was to call for an ecumenical worldwide fellowship of love," he writes. "King was willing to die for his 'why.' What is your 'why'? What is your purpose?"

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